" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”

Recent Christian Scripture scholarship more and more has placed John within a first-century Jewish context.

Flavius Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, writes that " he sacrificed his daughter as a burnt offering: offering such an oblation as was neither conformable to the law, nor acceptable to God ; not weighing with himself what opinion the hearers would have of such a practice.

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus is considered the most reliable literary source for Caiaphas.

Goliath's stature grew at the hand of narrators or scribes: the oldest manuscripts — the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel, the first-century historian Josephus, and the fourth century Septuagint manuscripts — all give his height as " four cubits and a span " (); later manuscripts increase this to " six cubits and a span " ().

The first-century historian Flavius Josephus was so impressed by the area that he wrote, " One may call this place the ambition of Nature.

* Flavius Josephus Eyewitness to Rome's first-century conquest of Judea, Mireille Hadas-lebel, Macmillan 1993, Simon and Schuster 2001

" However, Wells insists that this line of first-century traditions is separate from the sacrificial Christ myth of Paul's epistles and other early documents, and that these two traditions have different origins.

The earliest recorded mention of using resin with wine amphorae is by the first-century Roman writer Columella, who detailed in his work De Re Rustica ( 12, 20, 3 and 12, 22, 2 ) the different type of resin that could be used to seal a container or be mixed into the wine.

" Here, doves may be invocative of peace, although in the context of first-century Judaic culture it may have had a different meaning.

Muir's father read Josephus's War of the Jews to understand the culture of first-century Palestine, as it was written by an eyewitness, and illuminated the culture during the period of the New Testament.

The first-century origin of the ossuary is not in question, since the only time Jews buried in that fashion was from approximately 20 BCE to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE.

AA sprang from The Oxford Group, a non-denominational movement modeled after first-century Christianity.

Building on the example of Jesus and Paul, first-century Christians placed less value on the family, and rather saw celibacy and freedom from family ties as a preferable state.

In the four gospels in the New Testament, Jesus cures physical ailments well outside the capacity of first-century medicine.

Luke is also mentioned by the Apostle Paul in some of the letters Paul wrote to first-century churches.

It was unusual for a woman in first-century Judaism to be accepted by a teacher as a disciple.

Along with Simon Peter and James the Just he was one of the most prominent early Christian leaders .< ref >" The Canon Debate ," McDonald & Sanders editors, 2002, chapter 32, page 577, by James D. G. Dunn: " James, the brother of Jesus, and Paul, the two other most prominent leading figures Peter < nowiki ></ nowiki > in first-century Christianity "</ ref > Fourteen epistles in the New Testament are traditionally attributed to Paul, although his authorship of seven of the fourteen is questioned by modern scholars.

Timothy ( Greek: ; Timótheos, meaning " honouring God " or " honored by God ") was a first-century Christian bishop who died around the year 97 AD.

A fermented fish sauce called garum was a staple of Greco-Roman cuisine and of the Mediterranean economy of the Roman Empire, as the first-century encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder writes in Historia Naturalis and the fourth / fifth-century connoisseur Apicius relates in his collection of recipes.

* The Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus, a first-century AD Latin epic poem.

His talents as an orator and rhetorician were greatly admired by his contemporaries, a number of whom were later regarded as forming a school called after him Frontoniani ; his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the Latin language in place of the artificialities of such first-century authors as Seneca, and encourage the use of " unlooked-for and unexpected words ", to be found by diligent reading of pre-Ciceronian authors.

In Christianity, some interpretations of Biblical teachings conclude that although tithing was practiced extensively in the Old Testament, it was never practiced or taught within the first-century Church.

In addition to craft often seen on the river, the 2008 festival featured a reconstruction of a first-century currach, consisting of a wicker framework covered in cow hide, and capable of carrying ten people.

They use cross-cultural anthropological studies to set the general background, narrow in on the history and society of first-century Palestine, and use textual analysis ( along with more anthropology and history ) to focus on Jesus himself.

The goal was to let the reader hear the message as a first-century listener might have.

Based on the existing historical texts and the archaeological iconographic materials discovered since the 1980's, particularly the first-century Buddhist manuscripts recently found in Afghanistan, the commentator believes that the most plausible theory is that Buddhism started from the Greater Yuezhi of northwest India ( present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan ) and took the land roads to reach Han China.

: The Hebrew name for ' Jesus ,' derived from ' Joshua ,' was common in first-century Palestinian Judaism, so ' Jesus of Nazareth ' specified which Jesus, and Acts references the early Palestinian Christians as followers ' of the Nazarene ' and ' the sect of the Nazarenes.

Some feel that the text of Acts shows evidence of having used the Jewish historian Josephus as a source ( in which case it would have to have been written sometime after 94 AD ).

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

The Jewish historian Josephus speaks of there being 22 books in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish tradition reported also by the Christian bishop Athanasius.

The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus described Jericho as " the most fertile spot in Judea ".

The first century Jewish historian, Josephus, deals with Ezra in his Antiquities of the Jews.

The events were described by the Jewish leader / historian Josephus, including the desperate defence of Jotapata, the siege of Jerusalem ( 69 – 70 CE ) and heroic last stand at Masada under Eleazar ben Yair ( 72 – 73 CE ).

Robert S. Wistrich, a historian specializing in the study of anti-Semitism, described Hezbollah's ideology concerning Jews: " The anti-Semitism of Hezbollah leaders and spokesmen combines the image of seemingly invincible Jewish power ... and cunning with the contempt normally reserved for weak and cowardly enemies.

Along these lines, the ancient historian Josephus emphasized practices and observances rather than religious beliefs, associating apostasy with a failure to observe Jewish law and maintaining that the requirements for conversion to Judaism included circumcision and adherence to traditional customs.

Setzer states that the passage indicates that Josephus, a Jewish historian writing towards the end of the first century, could use a neutral tone towards Christians, with some tones of sympathy, implying that they may be worthy of Roman protection.

The dramatic murder of Aristobulus III in a swimming pool in Jericho, as told by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus, took place during a banquet organized by Herod's Hasmonean mother-in-law.

John the Baptist is also mentioned by Jewish historian Josephus, in Aramaic Matthew, in the Pseudo-Clementine literature, and in the Qur ' an.

* The Romano-Jewish historian Josephus ( 37 – c. 100 AD ) describes it in his book The Jewish War ( 4. 10. 5 ) when he gives a geographical overview of Egypt.

The Jewish historian Artapanus of Alexandria ( 2nd century BCE ), portrayed Moses as a cultural hero, alien to the Pharaonic court.

According to Josephus, a 1st-century Jewish Roman historian, Herod the Great fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BC as a refuge for himself in the event of a revolt.

The Jewish historian Eupolemus, who wrote about 157 BC, included copies of apocryphal letters exchanged between Solomon and the kings of Egypt and Tyre.

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Samuel was about 12 years old.

A slightly different accounting can be found in the book Against Apion, by the 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus, who describes 22 sacred books: the five books of Moses, thirteen histories, and four books of hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life.

Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

Arafat's sister Inam stated in an interview with Arafat's biographer, British historian Alan Hart, that Arafat was heavily beaten by his father for going to the Jewish quarter in Cairo and attending religious services.

In the mid-20th century, the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem contended that de Leon himself was the most likely author of the Zohar.

** Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian ( d. 1982 )

* February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian ( b. 1897 )

* Josephus, Jewish historian